Cloudflare's proposal for regulating AI search features is likely to face resistance from tech companies like Google. Legislation is difficult due to rapid technological advancement outpacing policy debates. Concerns have been raised that blocks and paywalls enforced by Cloudflare could hinder academic research and benign web crawling. The Internet Archive and similar projects could be impacted by these barriers, reducing accessibility to information. Critics warn that Cloudflare's approach might provoke legal confrontations with larger companies, such as Google, which have limited incentives to cooperate with new regulations.
Passing tech laws is notoriously hard, partly because technology keeps advancing as policy debates drag on, and challenges with regulating artificial intelligence are an obvious example of that pattern today.
Cloudflare's initiative faces criticism from those who worry that academic research, security scans, and other types of benign web crawling will get elbowed out of websites as barriers are built around more sites.
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